Rugby
Big game hunting
Boris Starling looks ahead to the excitement and exhilaration of the upcoming British Lions tour
Year’s mind: James Small and the 1995 Rugby World Cup
ASH Smyth reflects on South Africa’s historic 1995 Rugby World Cup win
The New Political Battleground
The fortunes of Rugby League and the Conservative Party are now intrinsically linked
Games people play
Why team spirit leaves me cold
Most Read
The martyrdom of Young Bob
On ebbing power of the political influencer
Grooming gangs and the truth
We should not give ammunition to deniers of the grooming gangs scandal
Why has Keir Starmer been so unpopular?
He was the perfect embodiment of a failing system
Babies need women
Leaving children with only men who are not their parents is foolish and dangerous
Stop ignoring the Islamisation of our democracy
The British state is bending to Islamism, not attempting to defeat it
The bonfire of British history
Absentee landlords’ neglect allows architectural jewels to be burned to the ground
Reform should ignore bad faith criticism
The party is not perfect but that does not make all criticism valid
From Wigton to Wadham College
The Oxford Bragg describes is almost as much another world to us now as it was to him then
The centre-left is out of ideas
The new journal Arguably barely makes an argument
What the Brits can learn from Ireland
A seriousness of intent, a sense of longevity and a feeling for history
Auntie’s autumn
Rather than wage war on the Beeb, a Reform government should strip it of its monopoly and force British broadcasting to compete again
A bore and a balm
Inferno: Behzod Abdurimov (Alpha Classics)
Heart of darkness
Alexander Adams encounters an unflinching master of sex and death in Vienna
Women who play along …
It’s only natural when you come across the aftermath of a collision to wonder who was to blame.
Two false dawns
Anger can furnish a movement with energy, but not with votes
“You can’t preach here!”
A hostile attitude towards preaching threatens freedom of religion and freedom of speech